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In case you haven't seen it (like I hadn't), this ad is a parody of the 1984 Apple Macintosh ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

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Oh man... That ad was huge... HUGE when it was released. It has its own wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)

Well hugeish ... originally it only played nationwide once (but in the superbowl)

However Epic's rework is very on point - Apple has become what it originally claimed it was rising up against

Well they got enough press that they didn't have to air it themselves. The media was doing it for them. :)

For example, I've seen the commercial multiple times on various programs and I wasn't even born when it was released.

Ridley Scott directed too!

I remember walking into the latest generation of flagship Apple store (the cantilevered one) and thinking “man, who’s job is it now to throw the sledgehammer at the jumbotron?”

I wanted to do it but didn’t want a felony on my record. I think that would have been sort of neat, but didn’t know a good way to get the Ridley Scott five minutes hate clip played on it, which would have been critical for the gag.

A fun thought, regardless.

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